Lok is game for the challenge


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 09 Nov 2003

Leading a 120,000-strong union is not easy. But Lok Yim Pheng, the new secretary-general of the National Union of the TeachingProfession, is looking forward to the challenge. K. PARKARAN sizes up the gutsy mother of three

TAIPING appears a close link to the education sector. Of the five NUTP secretaries-general so far, four are from this historical town in Perak – including Lok Yim Pheng, 47. 

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